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		9oliYQjP on May 27, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The creator of Ruby explains why Ruby sucks Uh oh. I did not know that version 2.0 will be such a project. Any bets on whether it'll succeed at its goals by starting from scratch? The track record on that sort of thing in technology is notoriously lopsided in favour of failure.

zenspider on May 27, 2008 [–]

not true anymore... disregard

khafra on May 27, 2008 | [–]

How many ground-up rebuilds of large, highly popular projects succeeded in the 3 hours between those two comments, to change the ratio?

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